Dagger

[Geoff Nathan]

It took me until just now...

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
Faculty Liaison, C&IT
and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
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----- "Mark Mandel" <thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: "Mark Mandel" <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2009 1:00:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: Dagger
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> Poster:       Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: Dagger
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> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Joel S. Berson<Berson at att.net> wrote:
> > Unicode (2020) calls it "DAGGER = obelisk, obelus, long cross"
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> As in "Asterix and Obelix". It took me decades to get that one.
>
> Mark Mandel
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